1For creators of Linux distributions: 2 3Syslinux is a notoriously hard program to debug, since it runs outside 4of any operating system, and has a tendency to expose BIOS and 5hardware bugs on various systems. Therefore, I would appreciate if 6you would resist the temptation of recompiling the Syslinux bootloader 7itself (ldlinux.asm) if at all possible. If you do that, I will have 8to refer any bug reports I receive back to the respective distributor. 9 10However, I have no such concerns about recompiling the installer 11programs, and in fact, with both libc 5 and libc 6 in common use in 12the Linux world today I understand if you wish to relink the 13Linux-based installer against your system version of libc. Therefore 14a special makefile targets "make installer" has been included with the 15Syslinux distribution, starting with version 1.42. 16 17To rebuild the installer programs *only*, starting from a freshly 18untarred distribution copy of Syslinux, do: 19 20 make clean 21 make installer 22 23If you want to remove all intermediate files, including the ones 24obtained from assembling ldlinux.asm and which are included in the 25distribution, do "make spotless". 26 27I appreciate your assistance in this matter. 28 29 H. Peter Anvin 30